Muhammad Ali al-Halabi

Muhammad Ali al-Halabi
محمد علي الحلبي‎
Prime Minister of Syria
In office 27 March 1978 – 9 January 1980
President	Hafez al-Assad
Preceded by	Abdul Rahman Khleifawi
Succeeded by	Abdul Rauf al-Kasm
Speaker of the People's Assembly of Syria
In office 27 June 1973 – 9 March 1978
Preceded by	Fahmi al-Yusufi
Succeeded by	Mahmoud Hadid
Damascus Governor
In office 1969–1971
Preceded by	Mohamed Sioufi
Succeeded by	Muhammad Yassin al-Osta
Member of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch
In office 13 November 1970 – 7 January 1980
Personal details
Born	1937 (1937) Damascus, First Syrian Republic
Died	19 September 2016(2016-09-19) (aged 78–79) Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic
Political party	Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
Other political affiliations	National Progressive Front
Spouse	Lamis Mourad

Muhammad Ali al-Halabi (Arabic: محمد علي الحلبي, romanized: Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Ḥalabī;‎ 1937 – 19 September 2016) was a Syrian politician.

After finishing his training at the National Teacher Training Institute, Muhammed studied Philosophy at the University of Damascus. In 1955 he became a teacher on the Golan and from 1959 to 1964 he was employed as a teacher in Kuwait. From 9 June 1973 to 27 March 1978 he was chairman and spokesman for the National Council. He served as Prime Minister of Syria from March 27, 1978 to January 9, 1980 under the presidency of Hafez al-Assad. al-Halabi was an ambassador in Moscow from 1982 to 1990, during which Hafez al-Assad and Leonid Brezhnev made an agreement, to install the Soviet S-75 in al-Dumayr and Shinshar.^[1]

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